Very often it is needed to enable or disable autostart of some services in Linux.
There are different init systems exist, but on Ubuntu and CentOS the most common are SysV, Upstart and systemd.
Depending on distribution, the behavior of a service during system’s boot in Linux can be configured with systemctl or chkconfig commands.
This tutorial shows how to enable or disable autostart of system services in the most popular Linux distributions – Ubuntu and CentOS. (more…)